Heavyweight: Velasquez succinctly smashed two elite
heavyweights to win the UFC title. He fought just 6:32 total and
scored three knockdowns. Crushing on the feet and on the ground, it
seems almost unfathomable -- after looking at how he treated
Antonio
Rodrigo Nogueira and Brock
Lesnar -- that many thought Velasquez was a weak offensive
fighter after his June 2009 bout with Cheick
Kongo.

Light Heavyweight: Jones is the runaway winner at 205
pounds. Among UFC fighters who won at least two fights during 2010,
he did it the fastest, with an average of 2:36 in the cage per
fight. His spectacular array of offense alone was enough to get him
on the list, but his elbows, both for their speed (against Vladimir
Matyushenko at UFC Live 2) and power (against Brandon Vera
at UFC Live 1), cement his First Team status, heads and shoulders
above his contemporaries in a division that did not feature a ton
of high-level violence in 2010.

Middleweight: Lombard stopped three of his five 2010 foes
and battered the other two who went the distance. His six-second
knockout of Jay Silva and
38-second KO of Herbert
Goodman were among the year’s most brutal. Even when he fails
to secure a first-round stoppage, Lombard throws with ill intent
until the final bell, on the feet or on the ground. Lombard is a
fighter whose sensibilities are almost entirely in line with the
spirit of the All-Violence list.

Welterweight: Lytle is MMA’s blood-and-guts warrior for a
reason and poster boy for this list. Incredibly, he did it in 2010
without a knockout. His slick-and-nasty submission wins over
Brian
Foster and Matt Brown --
especially the kneebar on Foster at UFC 110 -- were tailor-made for
this team. He finished the year by clubbing former welterweight
champion Matt Serra in
a fight that, according to FightMetric, saw Lytle land 153
significant strikes (think power punches in boxing) -- an all-time
UFC record.

Lightweight: Pettis is the refutation of violence as
thoughtless and brutish. A thoughtful, slick tactician in the cage,
he finished three of his four foes in 2010, including a brutal head
kick stoppage of Danny
Castillo at WEC 47 in March. Still, it was his nick-of-time,
off-the-wall head kick on Benson
Henderson to earn the WEC lightweight title that crystalized
him as a true purveyor of MMA-style highlight reel violence.

Featherweight: Sandro is not as well-known as his teammate
and pound-for-pound star, Jose Aldo,
but, at times, he is even more violent. In 2010, Sandro put both
Tomonari
Kanomata and Masanori
Kanehara -- two quality featherweights -- on stretchers. It
took him only a combined 47 seconds. His right uppercut is one of
the most ferocious punches in MMA and single-handedly -- no pun
intended -- landed him in this spot.

Bantamweight: With the division’s two most sensational
stoppages of the year, Wineland is an easy choice as 135-pound
representative. In June, he put away Will
Campuzano with a crushing punch to the guts in a thrillingly
violent affair at WEC 49. He followed up in December by slamming
Ken
Stone through the floor in one of the year’s most arresting
moments. No bantamweight was even close to Wineland’s violent
streak in 2010.

Flyweight: The flyweight division is developing faster than
ever, and one can only hope future flyweights are cut from the same
cloth as Yamaguchi. He delivered three stoppages in 2010, and all
of them were suitably violent. He essentially KO’d Frank Baca
with a wicked standing elbow before choking him out, mashed
Greg
Guzman with a torrent of elbows and kicked off Fumihiro
Kitahara’s block. The unexpected throws, the head kicks, the
elbows -- Yamaguchi’s offense is true V.